Synonyms: scare, panic attack
Definition: a sudden attack of fear
Similar words: fright, fear, fearfulness
Definition: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
Definition: sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
Usage: panic in the stock market; a war scare; a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building
Similar words: anxiety, anxiousness
Definition: (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic
Synonyms: affright, fright, frighten, scare
Definition: cause fear in
Usage: The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me; Ghosts could never affright her
Similar words: excite, stimulate, stir, shake, shake up
Definition: stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
Usage: These stories shook the community; the civil war shook the country
Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off, pall
Definition: cause to lose courage
Usage: dashed by the refusal
Similar words: restrain, intimidate
Definition: to compel or deter by or as if by threats